Youth sports: Coach delivers wrong message with new coaching style

1:48 PM,
Apr. 15, 2013

Written by

Tom Kuyper
For the Poughkeepsie Journal

Mr. Kuyper, My 12-year-old son has been playing club basketball for two years now. He has had three different coaches but has been with the same coach for about a year now. Our team wasn't producing very many wins so the coach decided to change his coaching style approximately six weeks ago.

His new style is to be condescending and rude to the players. Instead of saying "Billy, you are getting beat on defense and your players are scoring on you" and then giving his advice on how not to let that happen, he says to his teammates, "Anyone can score 15 points on Billy because he ...